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editorbeen the Task Force members and leaders of the

project. As a part of this project, a centralized e-mail

solution for over 30,000 users of BITS campuses and

WILP students using google has been provided. User is

given 25 GB mail box size and 5 GB file storage.Waves,

the all-India cultural festival celebrated its 12th edition

with gusto and dedication.

SPICMACAY Goa State Convention 2012 was

meticulously organized on campus by a team of

dedicated faculty members and students.

With its Chief Guest Mr.Naveen Tewari of InMobi fame, the fourth edition of the grand Convocation Ceremony held on 9

August 2015 marked the highlight of the First Semester 2015-16. Waves, the annual cultural festival of the campus hosted a

plethora of events attracting a large number of participants from all over India. The semester witnessed a record number of

conferences/ workshops and also the first ever BITS Alumni Summit. Coalescence, the E-summit organized by CIIE pulled a

vast audience to listen to young entrepreneurs from various domains. Several faculty members, research scholars and

students visited countries abroad in pursuit of and sharing of their research experiences. Keeping up the spirit of research,

faculty members and students published their research papers in reputed journals. The departments invited experts to

deliver talks to students and faculty to enrich the domain knowledge. Faculty members on invitation from external institutions

and organizations, delivered talks, conducted workshops, etc., thereby not only disseminating knowledge but also keeping

the BITS Pilani flag flying higher. With unwavering enthusiasm, Nirmaan team organized several outreach activities

including the well-established Joy of Giving Week. A number of projects applied by the faculty members were approved by

the funding agencies.

Started with the first issue covering the events of the Second Semester of 2009-10, BITScan of K K Birla Goa Campus has

completed 12 editions. It has been possible because of all your cooperation in providing information related to your

academic and research activities and achievements. We, the editorial team thank you wholeheartedly and we are sure that

you would continue to enable us publishing this newsletter with a wider coverage in the semesters to come.

Started with the first issue covering the events of the Second Semester of 2009-10, BITScan of K K Birla Goa Campus has

completed 12 editions. It has been possible because of all your cooperation in providing information related to your

academic and research activities and achievements. We, the editorial team thank you wholeheartedly and we are sure that

you would continue to enable us publishing this newsletter with a wider coverage in the semesters to come.

Prof. Walter Lewin's visit, achievements by students

and faculty members, international visits by faculty

members for paper presentations and university/

industry immersion, their publications in national and

international journals, major festivals Quark and Spree,

collaborations with Indian Navy and Pollution Control

Quark’15 Inauguration

Prof. Sasikumar Punnekkatt taking charge from Prof. K.E. Raman

Smt. Bombay Jayashree at the Auditorium

MoU signing between BITS Goa and the India Navy

Presenting the Convocation Report 2014, Prof. B.N.

Jain, Vice-Chancellor, BITS Pilani reaffirmed the long-

term vision to be listed as one of India's top 3 research-

led technical Institutes by the academic year 2015 – 16.

The Vice Chancellor also talked about big-ticket

imperatives as part of BITS Pilani's “Mission 2015”,

such as faculty and staff development, industry

engagement, innovation and entrepreneurship,

internalisation, inter-disciplinary research, technology

enablement and quality assessment and assurance.

CONVOCATION 2014

Director K.E. Raman addressing the graduates.

Prize Distribution by Prof. K.E. Raman

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Education, Right Education and Education for all. He

talked about massive Expansion, Inclusion and

Excellence, the tripod on which we should move on in

the Education sector. He also appreciated the tireless

efforts put forth by the top ranking Institution BITS Pilani.

Prof. Sasikumar Punnekkat has numerous awards and

honours to his credit. An excellent academician &

researcher, Prof. Sasikumar Punnekkat has authored

books, book chapters and over 100 research articles,

undertaken significant R&D projects, received the

prestigious commonwealth scholarship award and

occupied scientific / administrative lead roles in various

large European and Swedish research and educational

projects.

Prof. K E Raman introduced the new Director to the

senior officials of the campus and also briefed him on the

ongoing activities. Prof. Sasikumar praised Prof. Raman

and the BITS-Goa team for their efforts in building the

campus, and subsequently interacted with the officials.

While taking over as Director and Sr. Professor of BITS

Pilani, K K Birla Goa campus, Prof. Sasikumar

Punnekkat said "BITS is known for its excellence in

undergraduate education, and envisions to be a top

ranked institution both nationally and internationally by

2020. I feel honoured to be chosen to lead BITS-Goa and

aim to strengthen its research profile, industrial

collaborations and international networks synergistically

with its educational programs in the coming years"

Dr. Mashelkar unveiling the Mural of late Shri G.D. Birla

Dr. R.A. Mashelkar with Vice-Chancellor Prof. B.N. Jain

Dr. R.A. Mashelkar addressing the graduates

The Second International Conference of Robotics

Society of India, Advances in Robotics –AIR 2015 jointly

organized by Robotics Society of India and BITS Pilani, K

K Birla Goa Campus was hosted in BITS Pilani K K Birla

Goa Campus in 2nd -4th July 2015. The conference was

inaugurated by Prof Roland Siegwart- Professor of

Robotics , ETH Zurich ,Switzerland. Key note speeches

were delivered by Prof Roland Stewart , Prof Steven M

LaValle - Prof of Computer Science, University of Illinois

and Prof Jae Bok Song - Professor ,School of

Mechanical Engineering, Korea university. Conference

was attended by approximately 250 researches from

Industry and Academia and Several Research

Institutions like DRDO, BARC ,CSIR etc. The conference

was followed by a Doctoral Symposium chaired by Prof

Santonu Choudhary , Professor-Department of Electrical

Engineering, IIT Delhi . The Symposium discussions

were steered by the mentor group members and PhD

Supervisors from reputed institutions throughout India.

Prof Anupama (Dept of EEE/ENI) and Prof Narayan

Manjerakar (Dept of EEE/ENI) were the Convenor and

the Co-Convenor for the Conference.

The Department of Chemistry organized a Technical

Session entitled “Chemistry & Industry- An Outlook” on

22-Aug-2015. The session focused on various aspects

including current trends in Research & Development,

safety aspects, environment in chemical laboratories,

various opportunities for chemists in a chemical industry

including Job Opportunities. Attended by PhD Scholars,

UG students and faculty colleagues, the training

program included several talks followed by discussions.

The speakers were Dr. Kamlesh Pai Fondekar, Head,

Technology and Engineering division Syngenta India

Pvt. Ltd. , who spoke on HSE in Chemical Laboratories

and Opportunities for Chemists in Industry ; Dr .

Vidyadhar Jadav, HOD, VERGO Organics, Goa, who

delivered talks on Introduction to Pharma Industry and

Green drive in Synthesis.

The talk was followed by an interactive session with the

faculty and students.

Advances in Robotics –AIR 2015(2-4 July 2015)

Technical Session on Chemistry &Industry : An Outlook (22 August 2015)academia

a confluence of ideas


The two day workshop was jointly conducted on 23rd and

24th August 2015 by BITS Pilani K K Birla Goa campus

and CSIR-NIO, Panjim, in association with EEE and E&I

association and BITS Genesis, a CSA initiative of the

campus for the audience interested in area of underwater

communication, Acoustic network, robotics and

technologies. Event was sponsored by Tektronix.

Topics such as Navigation of Robotic Underwater

Vehicles , Ocean Observation System, Underwater

Acoustic Sensor Network Network, Simulation tools for

underwater network, Advances in Underwater Robotics

were discussed during the workshop sessions by the

f o l l o w i n g s p e a k e r :

Dr. Sanjeev Afzulpurkar, Chief Scientist, Marine

I n s t r u m e n t a t i o n D i v i s i o n , N I O G o a

Dr. Antonio Mascarenhas, Senior Principal Scientist,

Marine Instrumentation Division, NIO,Goa

Pramod Maurya,Senior Scientist, NIO,Goa

Tata Sudhakar,Scientist F, Ocean Electronics Group,

E S S O - N I O T , C h e n n a i

Prof. K R Anupama, Dept of EEE and E&I, BITS-Goa

Dr. Mohit Tahiliani , Dept of Computer Science and

E n g i n e e r i n g , N I T K , S u r a t h k a l

Sarang Dhongdi, Dept of EEE and E&I, BITS –Goa

Rohit Sant, BITS-Alumnus, Graduate student at CMU-RI.

Workshop on Modern Underwater Systems (29-30 August 2015)

Chemical Engineering Day

(30 August 2015)With its resolute mission to keep the alumni of BITS

connected to their alma mater and to maintain the

integrity and strength of the vast alumni community, BITS

Alumni Affairs Division – Student Team Goa, conducted

the Alumni Summit 2015 on the 30th of August 2015. It

was a first of its kind event and witnessed speakers who

had established themselves in various fields of life. They

reminisced about their life back at the BITS campuses

and their journey thereafter.

Seven speakers who shared the stage were: Anugula

Rakesh Reddy- a BJP Youth Wing politician and the

founder of Nirmaan, Akash Gupta- the founder of Grey

Orange Robotics, Jenish Mehta- a Graduate Student at

Dr. Vince Cable along with his Delegation

Dr. R.A. Mashelkar with Gold Medalist Namita Paul

BITS Alumni Summit H.E. Mr. Richier with the Director and Prof. K.E. Raman

Nikita Bharadiya, a young and active alumnus of BITS

Goa motivated young BITSians by throwing light on

different aspects of her life. She explained how life at

BITS Goa transformed her from a silent, shy person to a

fearless young woman. She mentioned how she

founded UDAAN for empowerment of poor and

deprived women, the difficulties she faced and how she

overcame those. She narrated the story of her first day

at work after graduating from IIM-A, when she realized

that though you have good degrees from reputed

institutes to your credit you don't gain respect until you

work hard and contribute to the company or association

that you are working for.

Ajay Chaturvedi was the final speaker at the Summit.

Students were very curious to hear the story of the man

who had made it so big in the corporate world, only to

leave it behind to build his own startup. He shared his

experiences at BITS and at Wharton, working as the

director of Citi. Finally, his experiences of going to the

Himalayas and Kedarnath after hitting a rough patch in

his life and how he found his guru there who inspired him

to change tracks. From being an investment banker, he

became the founder of HarVa- a BPO company

empowering rural women. He ended the talk by

launching his book-“Lost Wisdom of the Swastika” and

answering students' queries.

Centre for Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreunership (CIIE)

California Institute of Technology, Ajay Chaturvedi- the

founder of HarVa and a published Author, Nikita

Bhardia- an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad and the founder

of Udaan, Harish Sivaramakrishnan – the lead singer of

the band Agam and Garv Malik- a standup comedian

and founder of OpenMics.

Anugula Rakesh Reddy spoke about how he joined

politics after graduating from BITS. His experience at

BITS in contesting elections, and his role as the General

Secretary during his time at BITS motivated him to take

up politics. He mentioned how the BITSian tag was

special for him as it distinguished him from the crowd.

He stressed on the need for educated people to take up

the responsibility of changing the political landscape in

India and talked about political entrepreneurship as a

career.

Akash Gupta narrated his decision to leave behind

enticing job offers from the USA, South Korea etc., in

order to follow his heart into starting up a hardware

product company. He spoke about his belief in taking

risks and enjoying work, and how challenges are an

important aspect in an entrepreneurial journey.

Excerpts from his college life were a major part of his

speech and he also talked about AcYut, India's first

humanoid robot. He encouraged students to be

passionate about their dreams.

Starting with his journey to Caltech, Jenish Mehta, a

student of Theoretical Computer Science at California

Institute of Technology spoke about various aspects of

Theoretical Computer Science and its applications. In

surprisingly simple words he explained fascinating

concepts such as zero knowledge proofs. He then

moved on to say a few words about perseverance and

effort, and how we must endure a lot of pain to succeed

in the field we are truly passionate about.

Having graduated very recently with a degree in Civil

Engineering, Garv Malik could relate really well to the

audience. He shared through his good sense of humor,

his experience at BITS. Stand-up comedy comes

naturally to him and after a lot of experimentation; he

managed to find his way into shows and flagged off his

career in stand-up comedy. Even though he was not

appreciated early on in his career, he didn't give up.

Along with building his career as an artiste, he also

established Openmics.in to provide a platform for

comedians.

Harish Sivaramakrishnan, the voice of Agam, gave an

inspiring speech sharing his experiences at

and after BITS. He narrated how he discovered his

passion for music and web page designing during his

college years. Despite While his dream job offer from

Adobe served as inspiration for all the students, his stint

at Freecharge as its 4th employee caught the attention

of the startup enthusiasts. His life story was summed up

in a single line – “Do what you love in life, for if you love

your work, it won't seem like a burden! Rather you'll enjoy

doing it.” In the end, he sang on public demand and that

energized the atmosphere.

Nikita Bharadiya, a young and active alumnus of BITS

Goa motivated young BITSians by throwing light on

different aspects of her life. She explained how life at

BITS Goa transformed her from a silent, shy person to a

fearless young woman. She mentioned how she founded

UDAAN for empowerment of poor and deprived women,

the difficulties she faced and how she overcame those.

She narrated the story of her first day at work after

graduating from IIM-A, when she realized that though you

have good degrees from reputed institutes to your credit

you don't gain respect until you work hard and contribute

to the company or association that you are working for.











empowering rural women. He ended the talk by

launching his book-“Lost Wisdom of the Swastika” and

answering students' queries.

Chemical Engineering Day

Dr. Vince Cable along with his Delegation

Dr. R.A. Mashelkar with Gold Medalist Namita Paul

BITS Alumni Summit

On June 1, 2015 the Institute set up the Center for

Innovation, Incubation & Entrepreneurship ( CIIE) as an

integrated structure for academic and incubation

activities related to entrepreneurship in BITS Pilani.

CIIE is led by Prof Srinivas Krishnaswamy, Professor

Incharge . He is supported by the Faculty Incharges in

each campus: Dr. Jyoti Tikoria at Pilani, Prof. Mridula

Goel at Goa, Dr. Chandu Parimi at Hyderabad and Prof.

Srinivasa Rao at Dubai.CIIE aims to promote innovation

led entrepreneurship in BITS Pilani campuses. The key

focus areas for the Center are Intellectual Property

d e v e l o p m e n t , Te c h n o l o g y T r a n s f e r a n d

Commercialization and fostering Start ups. CIIE

proposes to work closely with alumni and industry to

provide support to BITS students and faculty as they

Centre for Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreunership (CIIE)












Prof. Walter H. G. Lewin, renowned Dutch Astrophysicist

and Professor Emeritus of Physics at Massachusetts

Institute of Technology, explained 'Birth and Death of

stars' at the Campus auditorium on 14 March, 2014 as a

part of BITS Pilani University's Golden Jubilee

Celebrations.

Dr. Gaurav Dar, introduced Prof. Lewin, calling him 'one

of the most famous Professors in the world.' Lewin is

popular for his video lecture series on Physics and

massive online courses taught on MIT OCW (Open

Prof. Walter Lewin addressing the students

Walter Lewin

MoUsMemorandum of Understanding between BITS

Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus and Indian Naval

Academy, Ezhimala, Kerala

Signed by Prof. K.E. Raman, Director, BITS Pilani, K K

Birla Goa Campus and Cmde S.R. Sridhar, Registrar,

INA on Wednesday, 19 March 2014, the MoU broadly

emphasizes faculty development through exchange of

know-how, expertise, knowledge and participation in

events organized by BITS and INA, including research

Five-year Memorandum of understanding between

BITS Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus and the Goa

s t a t e p o l l u t i o n c o n t r o l b o a r d ( G S P C B )

On 5 June 2014, GSPCB has signed a five-year

memorandum of understanding with Birla Institute of

Technology and Science, Pilani, with an objective of

fostering collaboration between the two organizations to

promote academic interaction. Under this MoU, BITS

will design and operate educational programmes to

meet the learning and development needs of GSPCB

leading to specific degrees of BITS through its work-

i n t e g r a t e d l e a r n i n g p r o g r a m m e s .

The memorandum was signed by Mr. Levinson Martins ,

GSPCB member secretary and Prof. G.Sundar,

Director Work Integrated Learning Programmes and

I n d u s t r y E n g a g e m e n t s , B I T S , P i l a n i .

The educational programmes will offer GSPCB

employees an opportunity to enhance their academic

qualification and synergize theory with practice on a

sustained basis. BITS students and staff will work with

After he explained the Doppler Shift using two lucid

examples that of a tuning fork and a rotating frequency

emitter, it was apparent as to why his video lecture

series is a sensation on the internet. He explained,

"Doppler Shift of spectral lines in binary systems played

a key role in the discovery of stellar mass black holes.”

Prof. Lewin concluded the lecture by commenting, "For

stars, there is really life after death, provided they find

the right companion and it is my wish that all of you

during life-not after death-find the right companion,

radiate and be happy." He also offered to sign souvenirs

for anyone interested in meeting him after the lecture.

The auditorium was packed to capacity by students and

A member of Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and

Sciences and a fellow at American Physical Society, Prof.

Walter Lewin started the lecture by explaining the birth of

stars by the gravitational collapse of a gaseous nebula of

material composed primarily of hydrogen and helium. He

discussed the nuclear fusion of hydrogen into helium in

the stars' core, which releases massive amounts of

energy. Then he enlightened the audience on the death

of stars where the core becomes a stellar remnant: a

white dwarf, a neutron star or a black hole depending on

the star's mass; the Sun, being fairly light in mass, will

turn into a white dwarf in around 5 billion years.

Recipient of various awards including the NASA Award

for Exceptional Scientific Achievement(1978) and NASA

Group Achievement Award for the Discovery of the

Coalescence 2015 ( 05 – 06 September 2015)

The start-up movement is growing fast in our country. To

inspire entreprenurship and support start ups CIIE, BITS

Pilani K K Birla Goa Campus organized an E-Summit:

Coalescence 2015 on September 5 and 6 , 2015. CIIE is

the entrepreneurial community of BITS Pilani ,which aims

to create leaders through entrepreneurial thinking.

The aim of the event was to provide a platform for

entrepreneurship ideas to receive funding and

mentorship from renowned incubators and accelerators

and to provide an opportunity to interact with some

successful entrepreneurs in various fields.

The final round of the B-Plan competition, Novatia took

place with 20 teams in general and social categories.

Fizzible Tech Pvt Ltd, Pune and Greensole, Udaipur won

the competition in the respective categories. The aim of

the event was to provide a platform for entrepreneurship

ideas to receive funding and mentorship from renowned

incubators and accelerators and to provide an

opportuni ty to interact wi th some successful

entrepreneurs in various fields. incubators which have

partnered with us in this regard: Seedfund(Bangalore,

Delhi), CIBA(Goa), Tlabs(Delhi), Collaborant(Bangalore)

,Villgro(Chennai) , Leading Angels(Mumbai), Unitus(

Bangalore), Ah! Ventures(Bangalore), 91Springboard(

New Delhi).

Two workshops were held on the occasion to provide

fundamentals of building a real business and on pitching

to investors. The resource persons were from well known

names in the start up ecosystem: Knolscape and 91

springboard.

Coalescence also held the third edition of its annual

conference, ACT 3.0. ACT witnessed some big names

from numerous fields who shared their experiences

during 05-06 September 2015

1.A.Muruganantham-Inventor,Social Entrepreneur,

listed by 'Time' as 100 most influential People in 2014

2. Vijay Nair- Founder ,Only Much louder

3. TVF Pitchers –Internet based web series on start up

challenges

4. Taapsee Pannu- Actress and Entrepreneur

5. Rajat kapoor. National award Winning Actor, director

and writer

6. Hussain zaidi- Investigative journalist, Indian Express

7. Rahul Yadav- Co Founder, Housing.com

Rahul Yadav at Coalescence’15

IACLALS ( Indian Association of Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies) Annual Conference on Space, Place, Travel, Displacement, Exile

Timbaktu (Short Eco-documentary - Runner Up) were

given Rs.20, 000 and Rs.10, 000 as cash awards along

with certificates and trophies. The awards were

sponsored by Kuala Lumpur Ecofilm Festival, Malaysia.

Eminent social and environmental scientist, Padma

Bhushan and Padma Sri awardee, Prof. Madhav Gadgil

delivered a lecture on the role of teachers and students

of Goa in environment monitoring leading to

preservation. He was also a part of the panel discussion

titled, 'Can development be Ecocentric?' along with

professors, activists and filmmakers. Eminent

Ecocritics, Prof. Nirmal Selvamony (Central University

of Tamil Nadu) and Prof. N. Nagaraju delivered lectures

on Ecocriticism and led an open discussion on

Ecocrit icism with the research scholars who

participated from across India.

Alongside screening films, four workshops, three

lectures, one lecture-cum-demonstration and a panel

discussion were also organized as part of TEFF 2014.

The festival concluded with the screening of four award-

winning films of TEFF 2014. For more details, check the

International Conference on “Towards Ecocultural Ethics: Recent Trends and Future Directions” : 09-11 October

Department of Economics and Internat ional

Programmes and Collaboration division jointly

organized EURAXESS Information Session on Friday

,25th September 2015 at the campus. The Objectives of

the event were:

1.To offer understanding of European funding and

fellowship opportunities available to Indian researchers

including rules of participation and grant management.

2.To showcase examples of research cooperation

between India and Europe (e.g. France).

3 . To s h a r e e x p e r i e n c e o f B I T S - P i l a n i

researchers/faculty in or with Europe (testimonies)

4.To promote “EURAXESS-Researchers in Motion” as

an innovative tool to researchers and EURAXESS Links

India as an attractive networking and career-supporting

platform for researchers in India.

5.To facilitate networking opportunities for researchers

a n d a c a d e m i c / r e s e a r c h i n s t i t u t i o n s .

The session is expected to ultimately contribute to

increasing the number of grant applications, under

Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions (MSCA) and

European Research Council (ERC) under Horizon 2020

(EU Research & Innovation Framework Programme).

EURAXESS Information Session (25 September 2015)

Pro-E Creo Training Workshop (25 and 27 September 2015)Department of Mechanical Engineering conducted a

two- day PRO-E Creo workshop during 25-27

September 2015. Cordinated by Mr. Ramkumar faculty

at the department, the workshop attracted 75

participants consisting of students, faculty and staff of

the campus. coordinated Mr. Abay Prabhu was invited


General V. K. Singh with Director

General V. K. Singh at the Campus

Four films from the seventy entries, won awards. The

films Have you seen the Arana? (Best Eco-documentary

Feature); City's Edge (Best Short Eco-documentary); In

DST-PAC Meeting

Dr. Vikas Chaudhari and Prof. D M Kulkarni from

Mechanical Engineering department organized

Department of Science and Technology | Programme

Advisory Committees (DST | PAC) meeting in the area

of Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering and

Robotics on 29th and 30th May 2014.

as a resource person from “KRATOS Engineering & IT

SolutionsPvt. Ltd. Pune” to provide hands on training on

PRO-E Creo. By attending the workshop, the participants

have learned to

ŸDevelop primary knowledge of working drawing using

Pro/E Software.

ŸProduce orthographic drawing of different machine

parts.

ŸDevelop skill to produce detailed drawings of machines

parts from assembly drawing.

ŸDevelop skill to produce assembly drawings and

exploded views

ŸDevelop an idea to produce cross sectional views or

auxiliary views by taking section at appropriate locations.

TEDxBITSGo, India's first university-hosted, student-

run TEDx event is also the longest-running TEDx event

in the country. It hosted its annual conference on the

25th of January. The theme chosen for the event for

'Pushing a Pull Door'. The event was organized with the

concept that breaking away from the reigns of societal

p r e s s u r e s , a n d w o r k i n g i n w a y s d e e m e d

unconventional is the key to revolutionize society. The

event showcased exemplary speakers, who having

come from ordinary backgrounds, challenged the

norms society set for them. Any and all social constructs

rang hollow for them, and all they could think about was

this new, exciting thing they had thought of. And their

ideas are the key to being alive, and to move towards

leading a life of fulfillment and sustainability.

Excerpts from the talks of some speakers are given

below:

Clea Chandmal, is a passionate believer; practitioner

and teacher of permaculture, a style of creating

sustainable habitats that mimic nature's patterns and do

not burden the earth. Her talk was centered on the

sustainability of this style of cultivation. Her own home

and farm are modeled after her ideas.

Mani Vajipeyajula, is the founder of Banyan Nation, an

organization that aims to transform the solid waste

management landscape in India through technological

innovation, better practices and grassroot activism. His

practicality and the results that his organization

achieved gave his speech a lot of recognition and

credibility.

Adm. Arun Prakash, has served as Chief of Naval Staff

of the Indian Navy. His persona was impressive and

commanding. He spoke about reviving the former

maritime glory of India, the importance of it, and the

pragmatic way to go about it.

Subodh Kerkar is a visual artist. Having experimented

with different kinds of media for over 20 years now, his

presentation consisted of images of his works as an

installation artist. He spoke about his inspirations, the

thought process that goes behind each installation. His

talk was received very well by the audience.

Rohit Gupta introduced himself as a science historian.

He spoke about what it takes to fuel a scientific

revolution with a historical backdrop. Having an

audience of only science-oriented students, everyone

was very impressed with the technical depth his speech

had.

International Conference on “Towards Ecocultural Ethics: Recent Trends and Future Directions” : 09-11 October 2014

Shifting Undercurrents, Directed by Rita Banerji, won

the Best Indian Short Ecodocumentary award followed

by Chintan Gohil's A Commons Sense (Best Indian

Short Ecodocumentary – Runner-up), The Red Data

B o o k : A n A p p e n d i x ( B e s t I n d i a n F e a t u r e

Ecodocumentary) by Sreemith Sekar, Shrinking Shores

((Best Indian feature Ecodocumentary – Runner-up) by

Ashish Rao, a French film, Jikoo, a wish (Best

International Ecodocumentary) by Christophe Leroy

and Adrien Camus and the Taiwanese film, The Lost

Sea (Best International Ecodocumentary – Runner-up)

by Hung Chun-Hsiu.

Coordinated by Dr.Rayson K Alex and Dr. Reena

Cheruvalath of the department, the festival attempted

towards enriching the academic and research

endeavors pertaining to the fields of Ecocinema and

Ecocriticism.

Celebrating Landscapes and Waterscapes : Eco Film Festival and Ecocinema

Inauguration of the Conference

tiNai Eco Film Festival and National Conference ( 8-10 October 2015)

The second edition of tiNai Ecofilm Festival (TEFF) 2015

and National Conference on Ecocinema recently

concluded in BITS Pilani K. K. Birla Goa Campus.

Inaugurated on 8th October, the event hosted by the

Department of Humanities and Social Sciences , was

spread over three days, screened 20 ecofilms selected

out of 82 entries , conducted a national conference with

twenty paper presentations along with two workshops by

eminent filmmakers and activists.

The title tiNai refers to an Indian ecophilosophy which

integrates nature, culture and sacred, similar to the

Greek concept, oikos, meaning “household” or “family.”

Prof. Salma Monani, Gettysburg College, USA, and

Rachel Carson Fellow, Munich, the Chief Guest of the

conference delivered the keynote address on

“Ecocinema Studies: Past, Present and Future”. Nandan

Saxena and Kavita Bahl, National Award winning

fillmmakers , Chief Guests for the Film Festival had an in

depth interaction of their film Dammed with the audience

on the inaugural day after the screening.

A workshop on ''Photography and Digital Filmmaking''

supported by Sony India was conducted by Nandan

Saxena and Kavita Bahl on the 08 & 09 October, 2015

and a workshop on ''Documentary as a tool for Social

Change'' was conducted by Saraswati Kavula, a

filmmaker, farmer and activist, on 10 October 2015. More

than 200 young ecoenthusiasts and students from across

India participated in the event from across India.

An international ecodocumentary competition was

organized as part of the festival for three categories:

Indian Short Ecodocumentary, Indian Feature

Ecodocumentary and International Ecodocumentary.

Interdisciplinary research Workshop participants

TEDxBITSGoa-2015

Automotive Research Workshop (10-11 October 2015)Department of Mechanical Engineering conducted a

two – day workshop on “Recent Trends in Automobiles"

for students and faculty of all disciplines during 10-11

October 2015. With a total numbers of participants 65,

the workshop was served as a comprehensive forum

where each student got a live demonstration on

engines. Recently used technologies in the automobiles

by different automobiles companies like CRDI, VGT,

EGR, ECUs, etc., were focused. Conducted by

Mr.Yogesh Kalia and his team from Medhaavi Center for

Automotive Research, the workshop was coordinated

by Dr. Ranjit S Patil of the department.


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Delegates at Roundtable Conference

New Facilities

Ÿ·Dr. Prabal Paul, Dr. Alpesh Dhorajia and Dr. Himadri

Mukherjee, Department of Mathematics, BITS-Goa

conducted tutorial sessions.

As many as twenty students, five research scholars, six

faculty members from our institute and three faculty from

two colleges of Goa State, participated in the workshop.

Lectures were arranged in the morning sessions followed

by tutorial sessions in the afternoon all through the

workshop. Dr. Prabal Paul coordinated, and Dr Alpesh

Dhorajia and Dr. Himadri Mukherjee co-coordinated the

workshop. Mr. Jiten Ahuja, MSc-Maths (III yearite) was

the student coordinator.

Conference on “Decentralized Biogas digesters and their slurry management” : 20-22 November 2014The two-day conference was organized by Birla Institute

of Technology and Science (BITS) Pilani, K K Birla Goa

Campus, Goa India in association with Institute of

Agricultural and Urban Ecological Projects (IASP),

affiliated to Berlin Humboldt University, Germany. This

conference brought together researchers, scientists and

professionals working in the field of biogas production

and slurry management so as to share experiences,

update technologies and provide a platform for strong

collaborative network.

Inaugurated by Dr. Pramod, V. Pathak, Member

Secretary, Goa Energy Development Agency, the

conference witnessed students, faculties and industry

people participating from different parts of India. 90% of

the delegates came from India showing a great

participation of Indian researchers. Student participation

was high with 67 % and all of them coming from India.

Overall, 24 oral presentations and one keynote speech

were presented during the conference. The Keynote

Speech was delivered by Padmashri Dr. Sharad Kale

from BARC. Conducted across seven sessions, which

mainly discussed about slurry management and

improved biogas production by employing different

methods and processes, the presentations covered quite

a wide range of possible applications including Biogas

plant varieties, Wastewater treatment by algal consortia,

value added by products from biogas plant, nutrient

removal, Biogas production using dry fermentation

technology, from different substrates, carbon mitigation

potential, biogas reactor at high altitude, biogas slurry for

mixed algal growth, value added products from digesters,

co-digestion, power generation, increase shelf life of

fruits and vegetables using biogas, fabric based biogas

reactor. Five posters were displayed during the

conference. A visit to the Biogas plant at Madgaon built by

Deertree Technologies pvt Ltd under technical

collaboration with BITS Pilani K K Birla Goa campus was

TEDx BITSGoa Student Committee

Number Theory and Cryptography (15-17 December 2015) The Department of Mathematics, BITS Pilani K K Birla

Goa Campus organized a 3‐day workshop on “Number

Theory and Cryptography” during December 15-17,

2015.

The following mathematicians were the resource

persons:

ŸProf. R. Thangadurai, Harishchandra Research

Institute, Allahabad (Transcendental Number Theory,

Quadratic Seives and Number field Seives, 3 Lectures)

Ÿ·Dr. Mohan N Chintamani, University of Hyderabad

(Number Theory-Integer Factoring, 3 lectures)

Ÿ·Dr. Vishal Saraswat, C. R. Rao Advanced Institute of

Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science,

Hyderabad (Cryptanalysis, 3 Lectures)

The 2nd International Conference on Terra Preta

Sanitation and Decentralized Wastewater System was

held at Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani,

K K Birla Goa Campus from 19th - 20th November 2015.

The conference brought together researchers,

scientists and professionals working in the field of Terra

preta sanitation and other decentralized wastewater

systems. Major sponsoring agencies were German

technical Cooperation (GIZ), DST and DBT.



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Coordinated by Dr.Mainak Banerjee, Department of

Chemistry, the conference covered a wide range of

contemporary research areas of chemistry including

Synthetic Methodologies, Green Chemistry and

Environmental Science, Natural Products and Drug

Discovery, Coordination and Bio-inorganic Chemistry,

Heterocyclic Chemistry, Catalysis, Materials Chemistry,

Supramolecular chemistry, Polymer chemistry, Analytical

Chemistry, Computational and Theoretical Chemistry.

Chief guest Dr. Bhanu Manjunath, Director, Syngenta

Bioscience Private Limited inaugurated the conference

which attracted an overwhelming number of participants

(250) and invited speakers (25) from all over India. In

addition 164 posters were presented. The conference

included 10 scientific sessions, 1 panel discussion and 2

poster sessions as detailed below:

Session I: New Reagents and Emerging Methodologies ;

Session II: Material Chemistry & nanotechnology

Session III: Green Chemistry & Catalysis ; Session IV:

Theories of Chemistry

Session V: Natural Products & Biomolecules PART I

;Session VI: Analytical & Bioanalytical Chemistry

Session VII : Emerging Trends in Energy ;Session VIII :

Natural Products & Biomolecules PART II

Session IX: Supramolecular & Polymer Chemistry

;Session X: NFCFA-RSC Oral Contest

Panel Discussions : Present Need of Academia and

Industry Engagement

New Facilities

ŸFew Distinguished Speakers at the conference were:

Prof. Sourav Pal, former Director, NCL Pune, presently

at IIT Bombay; Prof. K. L. Sebastian, IISC, Bangalore;

Prof. Brindaban Chandra Ranu, IACS, Kolkata; Prof. H.

B. Singh, IIT, Bombay; Prof. Asit K. Chakraborti,

NIPER, Mohali; Prof. Santosh G. Tilve, Goa University,

Goa; Dr. V. Siruguri, BARC, Mumbai; Prof. S. Sampath,

IISC, Bangalore; Dr. Satish Ogale, NCL, Pune; Prof.

Ashwin Srinivasan, Deputy Director, BITS Pilani KK

Birla Goa Campus, Goa.

Conference on “Decentralized Biogas digesters and their slurry management” : 20-22 November 2014The two-day conference was organized by Birla Institute

of Technology and Science (BITS) Pilani, K K Birla Goa

Campus, Goa India in association with Institute of

Agricultural and Urban Ecological Projects (IASP),

affiliated to Berlin Humboldt University, Germany. This

conference brought together researchers, scientists and

professionals working in the field of biogas production

and slurry management so as to share experiences,

update technologies and provide a platform for strong

collaborative network.

Inaugurated by Dr. Pramod, V. Pathak, Member

Secretary, Goa Energy Development Agency, the

conference witnessed students, faculties and industry

people participating from different parts of India. 90% of

the delegates came from India showing a great

participation of Indian researchers. Student participation

was high with 67 % and all of them coming from India.

Overall, 24 oral presentations and one keynote speech

were presented during the conference. The Keynote

Speech was delivered by Padmashri Dr. Sharad Kale

from BARC. Conducted across seven sessions, which

mainly discussed about slurry management and

improved biogas production by employing different

methods and processes, the presentations covered quite

a wide range of possible applications including Biogas

plant varieties, Wastewater treatment by algal consortia,

value added by products from biogas plant, nutrient

removal, Biogas production using dry fermentation

technology, from different substrates, carbon mitigation

potential, biogas reactor at high altitude, biogas slurry for

mixed algal growth, value added products from digesters,

co-digestion, power generation, increase shelf life of

fruits and vegetables using biogas, fabric based biogas

reactor. Five posters were displayed during the

conference. A visit to the Biogas plant at Madgaon built by

Deertree Technologies pvt Ltd under technical

collaboration with BITS Pilani K K Birla Goa campus was

Conference on NEW FRONTIERS IN CHEMISTRY - FROM FUNDAMENTALS TO APPLICATIONS ( 17-19 December 2015)

The first International conference on 'Trends in Cell and

Molecular Biology' was held at BITS Pilani, K K Birla

Goa Campus, Goa, India from 19-21 st December, 2015

organized by Department of Biological Sciences.

Convened by Dr. Angshuman Sarkar (Secretary), Dr.

Sukanta Mondal (Joint Secretary) and Prof. Dibakar

Chakrabarty (Treasurer), this conference aimed to

provide opportunities and bring together biochemists,

molecular biologists, cell and developmental biologists,

computational biologists to a common platform to share

their research and find global partners for future

collaborations. Padmabhushan Professor Asis Datta,

inaugurated the event with an inspiring address to

delegates and participants from different parts of India

and other countries such as USA and Singapore,

including distinguished professors, scientists and

research scholars. Interesting plenary talks were given

by Prof. Vladimir Korzh (Institute of Molecular and Cell

Biology, Singapore), Prof. Gopalakrishnakone .P (Yong

Loo Lin School of Medicine, Singapore), Prof. Cordula

Schulz (University of Georgia, USA), Prof. Adhip P.N.

Majumdar (Wayne State University, USA), Prof. H. S.

Misra (Bhabha Atomic Research Centre), Prof. Jagat

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Kumar Roy (Banaras Hindu University), Prof. Jayanta K.

Pal (Pune University), Prof. Indira Ghosh (Jawaharlal

Nehru University), and Prof. D. Kar Chowdhuri (CSIR-

Indian Institute of Toxicology Research). The conference

was mainly supported by DBT, DST(SERB), BRNS and

ICMR. With a positive note, this event hopefully provided

a fruitful start for updates on cell and molecular biology

trends that has made tremendous strides over time.

Informative Events

an interactive campus tour to show parents and new

students around campus and give them insights into

campus history, academics, research undertakings,

hostel life, club activities, etc.

The basic aim was to make all newly inducted members

of the BITSian community to know more about BITS Goa

and its culture. Started off with a participation by 200

students and parents, the initiative , during its next edition

was able to witness and increase in the number that grew

to over 800 students and parents with 8 volunteers

working with Karthik Srinivasan.

The 2015 version of campus tours was the most

successful of all. With a team of 22highly motivated

students, the Campus Tour was able to take almost the

entire 2015 batch and their parents (over 1000 people) on

campus tours. Karthik and his dedicated team of juniors

deserve a special appreciation from the entire BITS

community for their dedicated and innovative initiative.

With such a wonderful and efficient team, the future

editions of Campus Tours are expected to be even more

interactive and informative than ever before.

Campus Tours for students and parents

Based on his visit to numerous universities like Yale and

Purdue in USA and inspired by the highly informative,

interactive and insightful campus tours organized by

s t u d e n t v o l u n t e e r s , K a r t h i k S r i n i v a s a n

(2012B1A4652G) started campus tours for freshmen and

their parents during his second year. He named this

initiative FBI or Facilitating BITS Introductions,

FBI Agents Parth Madan, SairajKhope and AbhijeetRakde with parents after a completed campus tour.

Under the coordination of Prof.Radhika Vatsan,

'Srutilaya', the Classical Music and Dance group of

BITS Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus, in association with

Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) organized

Sursangam - 2015, a tribute concert to the legendary

professor of BITS Pilani University, Prof. Suresh

Ramaswamy.

Over the two days, the festival witnessed classical

music and dance events as detailed below:

3rd October

Ÿ·Ca rna t i c Voca l : V idwan Manasa Nayana

accompanied by Pradesh Acharya - Violin, A Radhesh -


- Mridangam, S Manjunath - Ghatam

Ÿ·Bharatanatyam: Vidushi Lalan Desai

ŸCarnatic Vocal: Balakrishnan Raghavan accompanied

by Sreecharan S.- Mridangam, Hancel Salim -

Synthesizer (BITS Goa Alumni and present students)..

4th October

Ÿ·Rudra Veena: Vidushi Jyoti Hegde, accompanied by

Shri. Sanjay Pant Agle on Pakhawaj

Ÿ·Dhrupad Vocal: Vidushi Aparna Shastri, accompanied

by Shri. Sanjay Pant Agle on Pakhawaj

Ÿ·Hindustani Vocal: Rajat Mishra accompanied by

Srinand Gawarikar - Tabla and Pranav Palande -

Harmonium (BITS Goa Alumni and present students).


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Informative Sessions

you do comprehensive and efficient searching!

b. Working with results (printing, saving, emailing and

sharing content)

c. Creating Online Folder and managing personalized

services

d. Translation and Text to Speech options

e. Navigating through results and Sorting

f. Creating Different Alerts – set up subject alerts and

journal table-of contents alerts to save you time

g. Personal Preferences

h. Mobile Site and Mobile Accesses – for researchers on

the go, we'll show you how you can access these

Ebsco Training Program (06 October 2015)

Iam glad to inform you all that, Aditya Tyres Title sponsor

of ISL team Athletico De Kolakata, will be conducting

promotional event at our campus for all the students on

6th October 2015.

They will conduct events related to the company Birla

Tyre's, principal sponsor of Atletico De Kolkata. All

games would be Tyre and ball related. The activities will

take place on a set up of 20ft X20 feet area with

company branding.

The events as follows

· shooting the ball through the Tyre

· Penalty Shootout

· Quiz

· Twirling the ball on the finger

· Musical Tyre's

· Jumping into the tyres

· Ball Relay etc.

They will conduct events for the entire student

community not only sport lovers, for all the events prizes

will be given such as T-Shirts and ISL Match Tickets.

D a t e o f t h e E v e n t : 6 t h O c t o b e r 2 0 1 5

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Venue: Lawn - In front of D Dome (Academic Building)

Promotional Event by Aditya Tyres (06 October 2015) Nikhil Dixit????

BITS Goa Campus Library is evaluating different online

content aggregation and collaboration tools and

database services for researchers. EBSCO are leading

provider of research databases, e-journals, magazine

subscriptions, ebooks and discovery service for the

academic, medical and other institutions. They are

offering a one-year free trial to our Campus. To

understand their products they organized a training

session on 6th October. Following areas were covered d

uring the session:

a. Basic and Advanced Search – hints and tips to help


Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has been conducting an

outreach programme, to increase awareness of the

roles and functions of the Bank among students. BITS-

Goa was among those selected for this outreach

programme in the year 2015. A team of officers (headed

by Shri Sanjay Hansda) from the Reserve Bank visited

the campus on 11 September 2015 and delivered a

presentation on the economy, its prospect and

challenges and on the working of the Reserve Bank and

answered the queries from audience comprised of

faculty and students .

RBI Team :Shri Sanjay Hansda, Director-Department of Economic

and Policy Research (DoEPR), Member- Committee

on Data and Information Management ,RBI, Formerly,

Analyst at Bank of England

Other members:

Dr. Saurabh Ghosh, Asst. Adviser, DoEPR

Dr. Jai Chander, Asst. Adviser, DoEPR

Smt Upasana Sharma, Research Officer, DoEPR

resources 24x7!

i. Search History

j. Help Link and Support Site

The training session was attended by faculty, research

scholars and students of the institute.

3rd October

Carnatic Vocal: Vidwan Manasa Nayana,

accompanied by Pradesh Acharya - Violin, A

Radhesh - Mridangam, S Manjunath - Ghatam.

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Convocation2015

Presenting the Convocation Report 2015, Prof. V. S. Rao,

Vice-Chancellor, BITS Pilani reaffirmed the long-term

vision to be listed as one of India's top 3 research-led

technical Institutes by the academic year 2015 – 16. The

Vice Chancellor also talked about big-ticket imperatives

as part of BITS Pilani's “Mission 2015”, such as faculty

and staff development, industry engagement, innovation

and entrepreneurship, internalisation, inter-disciplinary

research, technology enablement and qual i ty

assessment and assurance.

ŸChancellor Dr. Kumar Mangalam Birla in his message

congratulated the graduating students and their parents

and told them to keep a few key points in mind. He talked

about the need to leverage on innovation and succeed.

The Director of the Goa campus, Professor Sasikumar

Punnekkat gave a detailed report specific for the Goa

Campus which highlighted the achievements of its faculty

and students. Dr. Veeky, Baths convener of the

convocation ceremony concluded with the Vote of

thanks.




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company branding.



· Penalty Shootout

· Quiz


· Musical Tyre's


· Ball Relay etc.





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“Do what you love to do... It's an amazing era to be in

India… Be the architects of the changed India” said the

Chief Guest Mr. Naveen Tewari, Founder and CEO,

InMobi and alumnus of IIT Kanpur, Harvard and

McKinsey and Co in his Convocation address to the

graduating students of the Class of 2015 at BITS Pilani, K

K Birla Goa Campus. They had gathered in large number

with their parents and relatives for the grand convocation

ceremony held at the at the magnificent auditorium of the

campus on 9th August . Mr. Tewari urged the students to

give a massive round of applause to their parents who

have made many sacrifices and dedicated their lives for

their children's future.

Prof. V. S. Rao, Acting Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Sasikumar

Punnekkat, Director, K K Birla Goa Campus, Prof. A.K.

Sarkar, Director, Pilani Campus, members of the Senate,

faculty members of Goa campus and other distinguished

guests along with the graduating students and their

family members were present on the joyous occasion.

This year, 673 of our students received their degrees.

The three medalists were: Gold medal—Ms. Muthkhod

Shridevi Sharangowda, Silver medal – Ms. Pooja Malik

and Bronze medal– Ms. Zantye Manali Sunil.


Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has been conducting an

outreach programme, to increase awareness of the

roles and functions of the Bank among students. BITS-

Goa was among those selected for this outreach

programme in the year 2015. A team of officers (headed

by Shri Sanjay Hansda) from the Reserve Bank visited

the campus on 11 September 2015 and delivered a

presentation on the economy, its prospect and

challenges and on the working of the Reserve Bank and

answered the queries from audience comprised of

faculty and students .



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BITS Pilani has set up Teaching Learning Centres (TLC)

at its four campuses at Pilani, Dubai, Goa and Hyderabad

in June, 2015 with a vision to foster a thriving culture for

excellence in teaching-learning across its campuses.

Two workshops and one guest lecture was organized

during 2015.

Events organized

1.A workshop on effective teaching and learning was

conducted through Mission 2015 of BITS Pilani under

Quality Assurance and Assessment Imperative during

18th-20th July, 2015 at KK Birla Goa Campus. Select

faculty members from Pilani, Dubai, Goa and Hyderabad

campuses of BITS Pilani participated in the workshop.

Renowned resource persons from NUS, Singapore,

WIPRO Mission 10 X and from BITS Pilani conducted the

sessions of the workshop.

2.A Guest lecture by Prof. Shreepad Karmalkar,

Professor of Electrical Engineering from IIT Madras was

organized through telepresence mode through BITS

Pilani Pilani Campus on Sep 24, 2015

3.A one day workshop for PhD scholars and Teaching

Assistants on effective teaching learning was conducted

by TLC on Nov, 29, 2015. Around 50 scholars

participated in the event.


Ÿvertical, deals directly with the industries to procure

internship opportunities. The faculty involvement and

student guide verticals work hand-in-hand to assist

student projects.

ŸActivities so far:

Ÿ·Call for student project proposals and ideas on 2nd

September

Ÿ·A framework to select projects and provide them a

platform to avail the assistance in the form of guidance

from the faculty as well as seniors proficient in that field

Ÿ·Prominent talks and seminars : 'Android application,

design and development' by Prajyot Mainkar, Founder

of Andocid Media ; info session on Google Summer of

Code (GSoC) ; a talk by the founders of Project Mudra, a

BITSian Startup.

Ÿ·2-day workshop on 'Modern underwater systems'

jointly with the EEE department

ŸAs a future goal, Genesis plans to fund selected

projects. The foundation for the CSA Kickstarter

program has already been chalked out for this purpose.

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company branding.



· Penalty Shootout

· Quiz


· Musical Tyre's


· Ball Relay etc.





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Teaching Learning Centre

CSA, in its promote the technical culture of BITS Goa,

has initiated a landmark program 'BITS Genesis'.

Drawing inspiration from the successfully running MIT

Media Labs and FabLabs, the main objective for its

creation was to think beyond the boundaries of one's own

branch and bring together people from multiple fields of

engineering, sciences, arts as well as management. It

aims to create a common platform wherein people can

come together and ideate and build something beyond

their regular academic requirements. While academic

proficiency is of paramount importance, a taste of

industrial mentorship is also equally important. Realizing

this, BITS Genesis aims to provide both short and year-

long internships in startups by entering into an MoU. This

initiative will ensure that the students acquire the

practical skills and experience necessary for entering the

industrial world. Another motive for such industrial

collaborations is to secure industry sponsored projects

on our campus in the long run.

In order to achieve its objectives, the Genesis team

includes the following verticals in its organizational

structure: industry involvement, faculty involvement,

student guide and publicity. The industry involvement


Prof. Meenakshi Raman , Department of Humanities

and Social Sciences presented a paper The Ever-

increasing Demand for Soft Skills at Work Place: A

Study on IT Professionals' Perspectives at the ICMIS

(International Conference on Management Information

Systems) 2015 organized jointly by INFOMS & AIMS

International during 18-20 September 2015 in Bangkok.

International Visits

Dr. Anil K. Pundir , Department of Mathematics

participated in the 8th International congress on

Industrial Congress and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM-

2015) held at China National Convention Center

Beijing, China from August 10 to August 14, 2015.

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Prof. R P Pradhan


Prof. R P Pradhan, Department of Humanities and

Social Sciences presented a paper "Cooperating in the

Seas: ASEAN Region Maritime Security, Naval

Diplomacy & Game Theory" at the International

Conference on ASEAN Community- 2015 organized

during 3-4 Oct, 2015 at Thammasat University, Bangkok,

Thailand. He also presented a paper "India's Reluctant

War with Indians: Cost Analysis of Naxal Violence &

Governance Dividend" at the International Conference

organized by Asia Pacific Peace Foundation (APPRA)

during 09-11 October 2015 at the Asia Pacific Peace

Research Institute (APPRA), Kathmandu, Nepal.

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Dr. Amol Deshpande, Department of Chemical

Engineering presented a paper “Experimental studies

on unmixed combustion: packed bed reactor

technology for heat transfer applications” at the AIChE

Annual Meeting 2015 held in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

during 08-13 November 2015. The paper was co-

authored by Prof. Srinivas Krishnaswamy and Prof.

Krishnaswamy Ponnani

Dr. Aruna Govada , Department of Computer Science,

presented a paper “Hybrid Approach for Inductive Semi

Supervised Learning Using Label Propagation and

Support Vector Machine” at the 11th International

Conference, MLDM 2015 in Hamburg,Germany during

Dr. Vaishnavi Unde,Department of Chemical

Engineering presented an e-poster authored by her

and Dr.Srikanth Mutnuri , Department of Biological

Sciences titled “ Indigo production in a fed batch

bioreactor using aqueous- solvent two phase system” at

the ICEBB- 17th International Conference on Emerging


20-23 July,2015. The paper was coauthored by Pravin

Joshi, Sahil Mittal and Sanjay Kumar Sahay. Dr.Aruna

received a travel grant of Rs.75000/- from Microsoft

Research Labs, India to present this paper.

trends in Biosensors and Biotechnology organized by

WASET- World Association of Science, Engineering

and Technology during 24-25 November 2015 in Dubai.

Invited Talks / Workshops

Prof. G. Raghurama , Senior Professor, Department of

EEE & E&I was the Chief guest at the Inaugural

ceremony of the West Zone Vice Chancellors meet,

2015-16 organised by the Association of Indian

Universities (AIU), and hosted by Shivaji University,

Kolhapur on 25th November 2015. He also gave an

invited talk on 'Digital India', the theme of the meet. This

was attended by more than 25 Vice chancellors from

different Universities of the West Zone of AIU.


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Applied Sciences and Haute École d'Ingénierie et de

Gestion du Canton Vaud – HEIG-VD (ii)

Multi-cuff, Multi-channel ENG Recording , on 21

November 2015 at the National Conference on

Advances in Microelectronics, Instrumentation and

Communication (MICOM-2015) organized by the BITS

Pilani, Pilani Campus .


Prof. Dipankar Pal, Professor, Department of EEE &

E&I delivered two invited talks : (i) Neural Signal

Recording: Challenges and New Opening on 05

September 2015 at the International Conference

“Healthy World Conference 2015 – A Healthy World for

Happy Life” organized at JNTUK, Kakinada by

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University in

collaboration with Western Switzerland University of

Prof. Meenakshi Raman , Department of HSS ,

conducted a two-day workshop on Effective English

Communication and Teaching Strategies for the students

and Faculty members of Adamas University, Kolkata on

03 and 04 October 2015. About 150 students and 50

teachers participated actively in the interactive sessions.

Dr. Debasis Patnaik, Department of Economics

conducted a two-day workshop on shop on ”Inter-

disciplinarity in Social Sciences” in Chowgule College,

Goa on 22-23 Aug2014. The 21 participants including

professors were from 6 departments . Dr.Patnaik was an

invited panelist for PRME-Plenary for Responsible

Prof. Judith Braganca, Department of Biological

Sciences delivered an invited talk on 'Advances in

Halophilic Archaea' at the Seminar on 'Archaea:

Microbes of third domain of life' Dept of Microbiology,

P.E.S., Ravi S. Naik college of Arts and Science,

Farmagudi, Goa. September 28, 2015

Dr.Indrani Talukdar, Department of Biological

Sciences delivered an invited talk A tale of Tesk1 (and

other barrier kinases) in somatic cell reprogrammingat

NCCS Pune on 19 October 2015

Prof. Dibakar Chakrabarty , Department of Biological

Sciences delivered an invited talk on “A Thrombolytic

and anti-adhesive metalloprotease from indian

mococled Cobra venom” at 5th Annual Conference of

the Toxinological Society of India, Nov 21-22, 2015 at

Kochi.

Management Education organized by Goa Institute of

Management (GIM) in Hotel Vivanta , Panjim, Goa on

27th and 28th Nov 2015. He also delivered a 3-hour

lecture Series on industrial economy of India to

Japanese Students on 12 December 2015 as the

Resource Person and Invited Speaker by the

Department of Economics, Goa University

Solano Da Silva , Department of HSS coordinated the

second project-workshop on the dynamic of Networks in

the Urban Environment in relation to Migration in Goa

from 14th to 18th December. The workshop involved

presentations by experts, field visits and reflective

moments. This workshop was a part of the ongoing

project on the Language of the Becoming City - which

reflects on urban transformations across four urban

spaces: Södertälje, Sweden; Goa, India; Cape Town,

South Africa and Rio, Brazil

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Prof. Judith Braganca ,Department of Biological

Sciences, , Department of Prof. Meenakshi Raman

HSS and Mr.Anmol Srivastava , former President of

CSA Goa Campus, on invitation, delivered a

presentation on the BITS Model of Education to the

students of class XII ,their parents and teachers of

Jamnabai Narsee School, Mumbai on 27 October

2015. The presentation was followed by intensive

discussion and interaction.


Dr. Shalini Upadhyay, Department of HSS was invited

as a resource person and counselor for the 15th

Spiritual Convention held between 29 August 2015 and

5 September 2015 in Ahmadnagar. She conducted

workshops on Understanding Spiritual Intelligence and

Integrating SI with Public Speaking. She also delivered

lectures on Management Communication and Public

Speaking at Goa Institute of Management for their

Health Care Management Programme between 10 Oct

2015 and 9 Nov 2015.

Dr.Anita B Agrawal, Department of EEE and E&I,

delivered a talk on "Recent Trends in Engineering and

their impact on Consumer Electronics” at IFB industries,

Goa on 26 December 2015.

Dr. Dhanumjaya, Department of Mathematics,

delivered two invited talks : (i) Orthogonal Spline

Collocation Methods for the Helmholtz Equation with

discontinuous Coefficients at the conference on

Computational PDE-2015 held at TIFR-CAM,

Bengaluru during 21-23, December 2015 (i i)

Orthogonal Spline Collocation Methods for One-

Dimensional Parabolic Interface Problem” at the

International Conference on “Computational Partial

Differential Equations” held at South Asian University,

New Delhi during 28-30, December 2015.

Dr. E. S. Kannan, , Department of Physics delivered a

guest lecture “Nanotechnolgy - Lessons from Nature” at

PSGR Krishnamaal College of Women, Coimbatore on

03 September 2015.

Dr.Prasanta Kumar Das, Department of Physics

delivered a talk on his recent work on “Noncommutative

phenomenology” at the Physics department, Indian

Statistical Institute, Kolkata in May, 2015

Dr. Tarun Kumar Jha, Department of Physics, gave a

talk on "Light from the dark side of the Universe “ at a

workshop organized at the BHU, Varanasi .

Dr. R. S. Patel,Department of Physics delivered a talk

on “ Tunneling Magnetoresistance with Thin

Hexagonal Boron Nitride Barriers” at a cluster of

topical meetings on Current Trends in Condensed

Matter Physics organized by National Institute of

Science Education and Research (NISER),

Bhubaneswar during 19-22 February 2015.


Dr. Anil K Pundir, Department of Mathematics,

delivered lecture series on “Numerical Methods for

Solving Integral Equations” in the advanced level

workshop on Integral Equations—Solvability Analysis

and Application which was held at Department of

Mathematics, Jaypee University of Information

Technology, Waknaghat, Solan (H.P.) during October

19 to October 25, 2015. He also delivered lectures on

“Mathematics using Matlab” under the training

program "Making Mathematics Easy for students"

organized by Department of Applied Science, National

Institute of Technical Teachers' Training and Research

(NITTTR), (Under Ministry of Human Resource

Development, Govt. of India), Ext. center Goa during

October 26 to October 30, 2015. Dr. Pundir chaired a

session and delivered an invited talk at the

International Conference on “Current Trend in PDEs:

Theory and Computations” held at Department of

Mathematics, South Asian University, New Delhi, India

during December 28 to December 30, 2015. The tile

of the talk was “Approximation of the Optimal Control

Problem Governed by Parabolic Integro--Differential

Equations”.

distinguished lecturesSpeaker Affiliation Topic Date Dr. Akshat Agarwal Thermal Management

Group, Bell Labs

(Alcatel-Lucent), Dublin,

Ireland

Research in Fluid Dynamics 07 August 2015

Mr.Naveen Tiwari Founder &CEO, InMobi InMobi: Start Up Journey 08 August 2015

Varun Anand Co-Founder and Vice

President, MPHRX

Improving Lives Using

Technology

14 August 2015

Mr. Robert

Waggoner

author of the acclaimed

book, “Lucid Dreaming:

Gateway to the Inner

Self”

Lucid Dreaming 18 August 2015

Ankur Kumar Founder, BigBHK Starting Up 20 August 2015

Dr. Swapna Immani University of Texas at

Austin (Dept. of Neuro-

biology).

Interplay between electrical

activity and bone

morphogenetic protein

signaling regulates spinal

neuron differentiation

20th August,

2015

Dr Gladstone D

Costa

Orthopaedic Surgeon,

Goa

Consumer protection Act 27 August 2015

Mr. Karan Gaikwad Product Manager -

Reliance Games

A Career in Mobile Gaming 28 August 2015

Mr Anup Verlekar Volatility in Equity Markets

and Its relevance for

modern economies

01 September

2015

Dr. Saurabh Ghosh Reserve Bank Economy : its prospect and

challenges

11 September

2015

Dr. M. Michael

Gromiha

Dept. of Biotechnology,

IIT Madras

Computational approaches

for understanding the

binding specificity and

recognition mechanism of

protein-protein complexes

21 September

2015

Prof. S Karmalkar Professor, Electrical

Engg, IIT, Madras

Improving our Teaching

through Feedback and

Reflection

24 September

2015

Dr.Kailash

Srivastava

ABB, Sweden Solar PV

Prof. S. N. Kaul School of Physics,

University of Hyderabad

Fascinating world of

manganites

29 September

2015

Prof. M M Sharma Former Director, ICT,

Mumbai

Innovations in Chemical

Engineering

01 October 2015


Sudhir Ghorpade Head, Department of

Mathematics, IIT

Bombay

Affine Grassmann codes:

An Introduction

10 October 2015

Dr. Fernando Pinero Postdoctoral Fellow,

Department of

Mathematics, IIT,

Bombay

An Introduction to Coding

Theory with Emphasis on

Reed-Muller Codes

10 October 2015

Dr. Belinda Viegas-

Muller

Author and Psychiatrist The Cry of the Kingfisher:

Book Reading

06.10.2015

Mr.Apoorv

Kulshreshtha

Member of Technical

Staff, Database

Security Development

Team, Oracle India

Development Center

Data Masking for Privacy

Preserving Data Mining

09.10.2015

Mr.Rishabh Arora Software engineer,

insideview inc, search

and infrastructure team

Building a search system

using elasticsearch and

lucene

09.10.2015

Dr. Xuhai Tang Associate Professor,

Department of Civil

Engineering, Wuhan

University, China

Three dimensional

simulations for rock

fragmentation and

discontinuities in porous

material

14 October 2015

Prof. Veerappa

Gowda

Dean, TIFR-Centre for

Applicable Mathematics

Numerical Methods for

Hyperbolic Partial

Differential Equations

(Lecture Series)

12-15 October 2015

Dr.Samar Husain Assistant Professor, IIT

Delhi

Language and Machine

Processing

10 October 2015

Prof.Nityanand

Vidyadhar Pandey

Assam Central

University, Silchar

Employee motivation and

excellence in education

26 October 2015

Mr.Sandeep Datta

Wildlife Photographer My Wildlife Journey 20 October 2015

Prof. Rajendra

Singh

Physics department, IIT

Delhi

Fabrication and

characterization of GaN

based nano pillars for

nanoscale device

applications

24th October, 2015

Professor

Nityanand

Head and Dean in

Assam Central

Employee Motivation and

Multi disciplinary Research

28th October 2015



Dr. Subhodeep

Sarker

University of Veterinary

Medicine, Vienna,

Austria

To be, or not to be two

sites: that is the question

about antidepressant

binding!

17 November

2015

Smt. G. Rohini Devi Retired Associate

Director DRDO,

Hyderabad

High Temperature Carbon

Composite Materials

17 November

2015

Dr. Ravi Chandra Scientist F & Team

Leader, Centre for

Materials

Characterization and

Testing, International

Advanced Research

Centre for Powder

Metallurgy & New

Materials (ARCI),

Hyderabad.

Study of

mechanical properties at

the sub-micron scale

19 November

2015

Dr. L

Venkatakrishnan

Head, Experimental

Aerodynamics Division,

National Aerospace

Laboratories (NAL),

Bangalore.

Challenges in

Computational and

Experimental Aerodynamics

including Studies in Intake

Aerodynamics

21 November

2015

Prof. Dharam Vir

Ahluwalia

PhD Texas A&M

University

Neutrino oscillations and

Dark matter.

24th November,

2015.

Dr. Deepak Sharma Regional Applications

Manager, TSI-India.

Introduction to Hot Wire

Anemometry and Laser

based diagnostics tools for

Experimental Fluid

Mechanics

26 November

2015

Dr. Himansu Sekhar

Nanda

King Abdullah

University of Science

and Technology, Saudi

Arabia

Controlled insulin delivery

from collagen scaffolds of

controlled pore structure for

skin tissue regeneration

4 December 2015

Dr. Madhukar Gupta Additional Secretary,

Department of Public

Enterprises, Ministry of

Heavy Industries, Govt.

of India

State Owned Enterprises &

Possibilities of

Collaboration with Institutes

of Higher Learning

29 December

2015

Padma Vibhushan

Shri G. Madhavan

Nair

Former Chairman,

ISRO

'Indian space missions:

Challenges, technologies

and innovation potential

31 October 2015

Jonathan Barlow Musicologist The development of

instruments in north India

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lecture Series on industrial economy of India to Japanese

Students on 12 December 2015 as the Resource Person

and Invited Speaker by the Department of Economics,

Goa University

RBI Team :

Ankur Omar , (2012A8PS296G) presented a paper

“Improving data extraction efficiency of cache nodes in

cognitive radio networks using big data analysis” at

IEEE Sponsored "Next Generation Mobile Applications,

Services and Technologies" conference (NGMAST

2015) held at the University of Cambridge, Cambridge,

UK in september 2015 . Ankur received two grants from

BITSAA : BITSAA International Travel.

Grant http://www.bitsaa.org/?page=partial_travelschol

and BITSAA Paper Publication Assistance Award.

http://www.bitsaa.org/?page=paperpublication


Rajesh Tilwani ( 2012A8PS343G), published a paper ,

“Energy savings potentials in buildings through energy

audit- A case study in an Indian building” in IEEE

Journal, co-authored by Dr.C.Sethuraman , Senior

Scientist, CSIO, Chennai. The paper was presented at

TAP 2015 IEEE International Conference held at Amrita

University, Kollam on 26th June 2015.

S Chetak (2012B4AA4522G) presented a paper “Can

R e t a i l I n v e s t o r s G a i n o n A n a l y s t s S t o c k

Recommendation Journalists vs Brokerage Houses:

Dr. E. S. Kannan, , Department of Physics delivered a

guest lecture “Nanotechnolgy - Lessons from Nature” at

PSGR Krishnamaal College of Women, Coimbatore on

03 September 2015.

Dr.Prasanta Kumar Das, Department of Physics

delivered a talk on his recent work on “Noncommutative

phenomenology” at the Physics department, Indian

Statistical Institute, Kolkata in May, 2015

Dr. Tarun Kumar Jha, Department of Physics, gave a

talk on "Light from the dark side of the Universe “ at a

workshop organized at the BHU, Varanasi .

Akash Gandhi (2013A1PS760G) and his team

members ( 2013A1B1223G) and Aditya Chindhade

Jitendra JasnaniS (2013A1PS509G) won the best

paper presentation award for their paper "Reduction in

Energy consumption of Air Handling Units using rotary

desiccant dehumidifier" at SCHEMCON'15, held in

Souryendu Das Sunandan 2012A3PS240G and

Gokhroo 2012A3PS688G published a research paper

, “Microstrip Patch Antenna at 7GHz for Satellite

Communication” in the International Journal of

Engineering Technology Science and Research.

Engineering Technology Science and Research.

Link:http://www.ijetsr.com/images/short_pdf/14478337

54_9-11_TESM206_ijetsr.pdf

Evidence from An Emerging Market” at the 23rd

Securities and Financial Markets Conference in

Kaohsiung, Taiwan, during 11-12 Dec. 2015. This paper

was the outcome of his internship at IIMB under

Prof.Jayadev and currently it is under review by the

Journal of Financial Markets [JFM], world's leading

journal in the field of finance.

“Computational Partial Differential Equations” held at

South Asian University, New Delhi during 28-30,

December 2015.

achievementsProf. Meenakshi Raman, received the Outstanding

Paper Award for the paper “ The ever-increasing demand

for soft skills at work place: a study on IT professionals'

perspectives” co-authored by Anjani Srikanth Koka

(2010PHXF804P) at the International Conference on

Management Information Systems (ICMIS) 2015, AIMS

International, 18-20 , 2015, Bangkok.

Priyadarshini Pai (2012PHXP007G) research scholar

in the department of Biological Sciences recieved the

FEBS Journal poster prize at the 2015 NextGen

Genomics, Biology, Bioinformatics & Technologies

Conference, Hyderabad, October 2015. Poster title:

Identification of catalytic residues in enzymes using

support vector machines. Link:

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/%28ISSN

%291742-

4658/homepage/febs_journal_poster_prizes.htm

Medha Tripathi (2013PHXF102G), part-time research

scholar in the department of HSS under Dr.Reena

Cheruvalath, has received the Erasmus Mundus

scholarship 2015 under the program “Namaste” . Prof.

Dr. Martin Valcke, HOD, Faculty of Educational

Sciences, Universitieit Gent is her promoter for

pursuing her research during Nov. 2015 - May 2016.


http://www.bitsaa.org/?page=partial_travelschol

http://www.bitsaa.org/?page=partial_travelschol

http://www.bitsaa.org/?page=paperpublication

http://www.ijetsr.com/images/short_pdf/1447833754_9-11_TESM206_ijetsr.pdf

http://www.ijetsr.com/images/short_pdf/1447833754_9-11_TESM206_ijetsr.pdf

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/%28ISSN%291742-4658/homepage/febs_journal_poster_prizes.htm




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Goa University

RBI Team :

The following students ,The following students have

made our campus proud by their excellent scores

(percentile) in CAT 2015

Abhishek Desai (Mech) 99.91

Siddharth Sridhar (99.92)

Anadi Mishra (99.87)

Abhi Jain (99.46)

Sahil Bhatla (99.05)

Arpit Sarda 98.67 Percentile in CAT 2016.


Shivansh Tripathi (ID 2010B2A8655G) stood first in

the merit list in UPSC Combined Defence Services

examination (All INDIA RANK). He has been selected

for training at both Indian Military Academy (IMA) and

Indian Naval Academy (INA) .

B. Rachith Aiyappa (2014B5A4469G) won the Mens

Singles Lawn Tennis event conducted by Cidade De

Goa in association with the Goa State Tennis

Association (GSTA). It was all All Goa Ranking tennis

tournament conducted in Feb 2015. For more details:

http://www.goainfomedia.com/rachith-aiyappa-wins-

mens-finals-cidade-de-goa-open-tennis-tournament-

2015/

Debasis Patnaik has been appointed as the external

Pre PhD FRC Member, Department of Commerce,

Department of Economics, Goa university.

Meenakshi Raman has been appointed as the external

member of the Department Research Committee,

Department of Humanities and Sciences, NIT, Goa.

Dr. Dhanumjaya P. and Dr. Manoj Kumar Pandey

Department of Mathematics were conferred with Ahlfors

Seminar Award-2015 (departmental) on 20 August

2015 by Prof. G. Raghurama. Who also delivered a

short inspiring speech on “Need of scholarly activities in

a department”.

Abhishek Tiwari (2013A7PS810G) has been selected

for the 12-week Mitacs Globalink Research Internship

program to be carried out in Canada in summer term of

2016. He will work on a project “ Multicore Scheduling

and Synchronization” under the guidance of Professor

Dr. Alex Aravind

At the University of Northern British Columbia – Prince

George.

Himanshu Singh Tomar (2013A8PS700G) ,

coordinator, Wall street Club, won all India Rank One

and Eighth rank worldwide among 5000+ contestants

from 50+ countries in "WorldQuant Challenge Summer

Alphathon 2015". It is a global challenge by

WorldQuant LLC to build trading algorithms for trading

in US equities market. Through the competition (

October 2015) he secured a One year Contract as Part

Time Research consultant from WorldQuant LLC with a

bonus of 1000 USD and 6,00,000 INR (Six Lakh

rupees) as stipend for a period of one year.

Pune during 12-13 September 2015. This paper was an

outcome of their project on “Dehumidifier” . The

sowcased the same project in ChemTech Students'

Outreach Programme, Mumbai, an exhilarating

exhibition collaborating academia, industries and the

research fields from across the globe. The project has

also won the 3rd position in Quark'15 Open Showcase.

Bangkok.

Yash Verma (2013A7PS023G) ) reached Gold level

within a week in WorldQuant Winter Alphathon and

stood 3rd WORLDWIDE. As a result, he was offered

RESEARCH CONSULTANCY contract with the firm

(part time job) with 6-LPA pay and was awarded a

bonus of $1000 for winning the third position. The

competition was from 01 November 2015 to 03

December 2015. Over 3000 students around the world

registered for the competition.

http://www.goainfomedia.com/rachith-aiyappa-wins-mens-finals-cidade-de-goa-open-tennis-tournament-2015/



PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR & NAME OF THE DEPARTMENT

TITLE OF THE PROJECT

FUNDING AGENCY AND AMOUNT (RS. IN LAKH)

Kinjal Banerjee Observational Signals of Quantum Gravity in CMB

SERB, Rs. 3.24 Lakhs

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Bangkok.


A normal wave is one which rises and then falls down

after a certain time. But the Waves of Bits Pilani Goa is

showing no signs of falling any time soon. Started with

very humble beginnings in 2006, this festival is giving

serious competition to cultural fests all over the country

and has started to be counted among the best in just

10 years of its inception.

The festival has been organised magnificently over the

years so the Waves organizing committee had its

hands full trying to match the standards set by their

predecessors. They promised to “Escape Reality” and

that they did and in such style, not only matching the

standards set but more often than not going beyond

them and overdoing of what was expected from them.

The tenth edition of the festival was held from 6-8th

November' 2015 with a footfall of over 35 thousand.

With electrifying performances from many artists and a

number of new events set to be introduced this year,

this Waves proved why it is considered to be the fastest

growing cultural fest of India.

The inauguration was held on 5th November in the

auditorium with Sanil Sachar as the chief guest for the

event. Expectations were undoubtedly high from the

inauguration with the famous mime club of the campus.

They did not disappoint and put on another

performance which was met with a standing ovation.

Coupled with the Kala club bringing out their brushes

and ERC putting on another encore worthy light and













2015/

WAVES 2015 ESCAPING REALITY

sound show, this was one inauguration people will not

forget in a hurry.

There were a number of new events introduced this

waves including couple dance (Jumele), photography

events like Shutter Island, a number of film events like

Time Lapse, Reverse Flash, literary events like Poetry

Slam and even a stand-up comedy event, Show me

the Funny. Coupled with the already existing

successful events like Sizzle, RangManch, DhinChak,

Indian Rock, Lexomnia and others and you have an

event line up so diverse that it would be hard for

anyone to compete.

The big three, Natyanjali, Mr. and Miss Waves and

FashP were again the major attractions with more

competition than ever seen before in the festival. The

nights were organised such that there was something

for everyone over the course of three days. The

famous DJ Paroma performed along with the band

Lost Stories performing their famous song

Tomorrowland on the first day. The excitement went

up another notch with the South African band AKING

performing on the second day. And the windup was

perfect with Salim Suleiman enthralling the audience

with their amazing performance on the last day. A

better end to the festival could not have been asked

for.

Natyanjali was taken away very convincingly by H.R.

College by their ground breaking performance. The

Significant ProjectsProjects Sanctioned during June 2015 -December 2015 :

S. NO.


TITLE OF THE PROJECT FUNDING AGENCY AND AMOUNT (RS. IN LAKH)

1 Dr. A. Amalin Prince Dept. of EEE &IE

FPGA Based Fuzzy Logic Picomotor Controller for Laser Beam Pointing Stability Correction

Department of Atomic Energy, Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences (DAE-BRNS) 24.46

2. Dr Veeky Baths Dept. of Biological Sciences

Home automation and smart wheel chair based on electroencephalography (EEG) signals produced in the brain

Cognitive Science Research Initiative CSRI (DST) 38.95

3. Prof. Meenal Kowshik Dept. of Biological Sciences

Lanthanide doped hydroxyapatite based nano-materioals for theranostics applications: Sensing, Imaging, and Therapeutics

Department of Science and Technology (DST) 35.07

4. Dr. Venkateswan S.Thimmakondu Dept. of Chemistry

Structure and energetic of C7H2 and C9H2 Isomers:Quantam Chemical studies

Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) 23.23

5 Prof. Sunil Bhand Dept. of Chemistry

Bio- Sensory Computing for Detection of Pesticide in Tea

Tea Board, India 5.50

6. Prof. Sunil Bhand Dept. of Chemistry

Novel m icro biosensor device for heavy metal analysis in vegetables

UGC- DAE Collaborative Research Scheme 1.00

7 Dr. R. P. Pradhan Dept. of Economics

Agenda 2020: India’s Maritime Infrastructure, Governance & Naval Diplomacy

Indian Council of Social Science Research ( ICSSR) 15.00

8 Kinjal Banerjee Observational Signals of Quantum Gravity in CMB






Principal

Investigator Department Title of Research Proposal

Amount

Rs. in

lakh

Dr. Asima Shaukat Chemical

Engineering

The role of rheology in defining

the tribological (lubrication)

behavior of biogreases

8.00

Dr. Indrani Talukdar Biological Sciences Role of alternate splicing

modulators in differentiation of

embryonic stem cells

into specific lineages

8.00

Dr. A. Amalin Prince EEE &I

Design and Analysis of MEMS

Switches for the Arc-less

Operation and Control of

Electric Energy Processing

Systems

7.50

Prof. Santonu Sarkar

and

Prof. Ashwin

Srinivasan

CS &IS

Applications of High

Performance Computing to

Software Engineering and Data

Analytics

14.00

Dr. Ranjit Patil Mechanical

Engineering

Effect of Novel Design Cyclone

Separator on Heat Transfer

Characteristics of Pressurised

Circulating Fluidized Bed Heat

Exchanger

2.50

Additional Competitive Research Grant for new Faculty funded by BITS, Pilani (2015-16)


MoUsFive Memoranda of Understanding have been signed by BITS Pilani K K Birla Goa Campus in 2015 with external

organizations:

1. University of Tartu, Estonia (18 April 2015)

2. University of Limoges , France ( 12 May 2015)

3. CSIR-NIO, Goa ( 23 July 2015)

4. Siemens Technology Services Pvt Ltd, (Sept 09, 2015)

5. The University. of Perpignan France. (Oct, 26 2015)

Under the MoUs, the fields of common research interests and allied activities between the two institutions were discussed. It

was decided to enter into collaboration in the areas of education, training and research ; organize regular exchanges of

information and of scientific and teaching documents ; develop exchanges of students and faculty.






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Significant Projects Management Education organized by Goa Institute of






Goa University

RBI Team :








Bangkok.














2015/


WAVES 2015 ESCAPE REALITY

A normal wave is one which rises and then falls down

after a certain time. But the Waves of Bits Pilani Goa is

showing no signs of falling any time soon. Started with

very humble beginnings in 2006, this festival is giving

serious competition to cultural fests all over the country

and has started to be counted among the best in just

10 years of its inception.

The festival has been organised magnificently over the

years so the Waves organizing committee had its

hands full trying to match the standards set by their

predecessors. They promised to “Escape Reality” and

that they did and in such style, not only matching the

standards set but more often than not going beyond

them and overdoing of what was expected from them.

The tenth edition of the festival was held from 6-8th

November' 2015 with a footfall of over 35 thousand.

With electrifying performances from many artists and a

number of new events set to be introduced this year,

this Waves proved why it is considered to be the fastest

growing cultural fest of India.

The inauguration was held on 5th November in the

auditorium with Sanil Sachar as the chief guest for the

event. Expectations were undoubtedly high from the

inauguration with the famous mime club of the campus.

They did not disappoint and put on another

performance which was met with a standing ovation.

Coupled with the Kala club bringing out their brushes

and ERC putting on another encore worthy light and

sound show, this was one inauguration people will not

forget in a hurry.

There were a number of new events introduced this

waves including couple dance (Jumele), photography

events like Shutter Island, a number of film events like

Time Lapse, Reverse Flash, literary events like Poetry

Slam and even a stand-up comedy event, Show me the

Funny. Coupled with the already existing successful

events like Sizzle, RangManch, DhinChak, Indian

Rock, Lexomnia and others and you have an event line

up so diverse that it would be hard for anyone to

compete.

The big three, Natyanjali, Mr. and Miss Waves and FashP

were again the major attractions with more competition

than ever seen before in the festival. The nights were

organised such that there was something for everyone

over the course of three days. The famous DJ Paroma

performed along with the band Lost Stories performing

their famous song Tomorrowland on the first day. The

excitement went up another notch with the South

African band AKING performing on the second day.

And the windup was perfect with Salim Sulaiman

enthralling the audience with their amazing

performance on the last day. A better end to the

festival could not have been asked for.

Natyanjali was taken away very convincingly by H.R.

College by their ground breaking performance. The

FashP event once again saw a huge crowd emerge

and the excitement was running high with Sanjana

Ganeshan judging the event. Mr and Miss Waves is

one of the most awaited events and this edition did

not disappoint with plenty of entertainment and

noteworthy performances. The winners of the event

were Delzad and Sabhyata both from H.R. college.

A number of colleges participated in the festival

including H.R. College of Commerce, Christ

University, etc. The competition was tough and neck

to neck till the very last with H.R. College winning in

the end though by a margin of only a hundred points.

They took away all the Big three events which was in

the end enough to see them through to the coveted

trophy.

The students of BITS Pilani Goa were not far behind

showing their brain power in various quiz events, such

as the Waves open quiz, Vices, Lone Wolf, etc.

snatching up a number of positions in almost all of

them. A number of informal events were organised

throughout the campus to keep the people engaged

into the spirit of the festival. For the night owls there

was the rock music competition SeaRock with teams

coming in from all over the country.

Overall, this was undoubtedly one of the best Waves

ever seen by anyone. The heights being achieved by

this festival seem to increase with every passing year

along with the expectations for the same. The next

year's organizing team surely has some really high

standards expected from them.











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·A SHG was formed with over 20 women being trained

in varied crafts

Ÿ·Project Kadam to train students holistically through

various activities; A well-received street play for the

people of Birla and Zari was organized

Ÿ·Project Ignite in partnership with Bhumi, an NGO

working in the field of education gives BITSians who

are not Nirmaan volunteers get an opportunity to

teach and interact with students of St.Agnel's

Orphanage every weekend

Ÿ·Collaboration with the well-known NGO Child Rights

and You (C.R.Y.) to organize an enlightening session

for the volunteers

Ÿ·The Nirmaan All Chapter Meet held at the campus

· Joy of Giving Week, the nationwide

philanthropic event which was christened DaanUtsav

this year was organized at a pan-Goa level by

Nirmaan from 02-08 October. Visit to various

orphanages and old age homes ; events for children

from various orphanages and nearby slum

communities ; a pan-Goan event where school

students around Goa communicated their gratitude to

the service folk in the form of thousands of hand-

made greeting cards which were distributed by the

volunteers to the fire-fighters, policemen, cleaners and

railway officials in Goa

Nirmaan

Sulaiman performing at Waves 2015

Students performing during Natyanjali

DJ Lost Stories performing at Waves’15 Ÿ·Nirmaan had a remarkable gamut of activities

executed through its operational wings responsible for

the activities related to knowledge , health and

employment :

Ÿ·Projects around the slum community of Zari and

recently expanded into Birla.

Ÿ·Project Teach Zari, aimed at students of primary

classes ensured a healthy attendance and helped build

a conducive environment for the students in the past

year.

Ÿ·Project Shiksha, provides training to the students of

5th grade for JNV scholarship exam. The Career

Counselling project organized workshops in various

schools around Goa and provided career guidance to

hundreds of students in the last 6 months.

Ÿ·Project POSHAN provides food supplements to the

students of government schools. It has reached over 60

children in the last semester alone.









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Faculty members from various disciplines have been appointed as members of National and International advisory committees / acted as reviewers for books / papers published in journals of national and international repute.

Name Department Journal / Member details Dr. Varinder Singh Mechanical

Engineering

Reviewed an article for Journal of

Manufacturing Technology Management

(Emerald).

Prof. Utpal Roy Biological Sciences Reviewed the manuscripts of the following

international journals: Microbial

Pathogenesis (Elsevier), Microbial Cell

Factories (BIOMED),

Bioresources and Bioprocessing (Springer),

Journal of Applied Microbiology and

Transactions of Tianjin University

(Springer)

Prof. Judith

Braganca

Biological Sciences Reviewed manuscripts of the following

international journals: Ecotoxicology,

International Journal of Biological

Macromolecules and Journal of Proteome

Research

Prof. P. M Singru Mechanical

Engineering

Reviewed 4 papers each for the ASME's

International Mechanical Engineering

Congress and Exposition (IMECE) held in

Housten, USA, Nov-13-19,2015 and the

17th National and 2nd International

conference on Machines and Mechanisms,

2015. Reviewed one paper for Journal of

Advances in Vehicle Engineering

Prof. Meenakshi

Raman

HSS Reviewed 2 papers for the AIMS

International Journal of Management ,

Houston, USA.

Dr.Debasis Patnaik

Economics Reviewed papers for the Journal of Applied

Manpower Research.

Mr. Tirtharaj DASH, CS & IS Reviewed papers for (i) Computer

Methods and Programs in Biomedicine,

Elsevier (ii) Journal of Information

Processing Systems (iii) 20th WMSCI-

2016, Florida, USA. (iv) IEEE Workshop

on Computational Intelligence (WCI-2015),





New Faculty

Sr.

no.

Name Designation Department Date of

Joining

Research areas

1 Dhanya Ram V

Assistant

Professor

Chemical 24 August

2015

Process Control, Modeling

& Simulation, Process

Identification

2 Rajagopal

Vellingiri

Assistant

Professor

Chemical 26 August

2015

Fluid Dynamics, Thin Film

Flows, Wetting

3 Vivek P

Chandran

Lecturer EEE & E&I 0 9 Nov.

2015

Estimation & Filtering,

Modern Control Theory,

Vehicle Hybridization

4 Vinay Budhraja

Assistant

Professor

EEE & E&I 16

December

2015

VLSI & Solid State Devices

5 Sandesh

Surendra

Chougule

Visiting

Assistant

Professor

Mechanical 17 August

2015

Thermal Engineering

6 Tirtharaj DASH Lecturer CS&IS 04 August

2015

Machine Learning,

Evolutionary Computing,

Applied Computer Science

7 Rizwan

Parveen

Lecturer CS&IS 17 August

2015

Software Systems

8 Varun Kumar Lecturer CS & IS 04

September

2015

Machine Learning &

Computer Vision

9 Soumyadip

Bandyopadhyay

Visiting

Faculty

CS & IS 28

September

2015

Formal verification

10 William Henry

Spates

Visiting

Associate

Professor

HSS 16

October

2015

English Literature


faculty:

Prof. Meenakshi Raman

Dr. Judith Braganca

Dr. Shalini Upadhyay

students:

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editorial team

Mr. P. Bharath Srinivas [email protected]

Mr. Atharva Vaidya

Mr. Prathamesh Bodhankar

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